sovietswag

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by sovietswag 4mo ago
Scared the shit out of me!!!!! Lmfao
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by sovietswag 4mo ago
Fuckkkk yes to Fishmans long season!!!
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by sovietswag 4mo ago
Haha well there is an exciting movie about concrete coming out, “The History of Concrete” by John Wilson. Surely the superfans are studying up
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by sovietswag 5mo ago
Hey friend, if it helps, every “song” you make will eventually become a symbol and memory of a time in your life. It doesn’t have to be good. Sometimes these sounds have even more fidelity than text when it comes to capturing your emotional
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by sovietswag 6mo ago
Part of my training for doing "engine room checks" on a boat involved checking for any unusual smells, e.g. fuel leak, burning oil (from generator/engine), burning coolant (from generator/engine), or burning rubber (from
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by sovietswag 7mo ago
Ha! I just had a debate about this with my friend. A certain ferry company uses a big Google Sheet to track where all of its vessels are currently docked in their home port, as well as which employee is assigned to which vessel for the day,
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by sovietswag 8mo ago
You can also find a lot of this information on NOAA's nautical charts. https://devgis.charttools.noaa.gov/pod . These charts (along with radar) are what ships actually use to navigate. Here's a captain demonstratin
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16-bit Intel 8088 chip by Charles Bukowski(mypoeticside.com)
4 points by sovietswag 9mo ago|0 comments
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Leslie Lamport's Annotated Writings (creator of LaTeX, TLA+, Paxos)(lamport.azurewebsites.net)
4 points by sovietswag 9mo ago|0 comments
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by sovietswag 1y ago
I wonder what you'd think about this video from Gary's Economics about the housing crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTlUyS-T-_4 It feels to me like a good faith counterargument to the YIMBY build more housi
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by sovietswag 1y ago
Oh wow thanks for writing out that summary of Sockwell's talk. I had a sort of similar line of thought a few years ago which I haven't followed since, but this just brought me back. https://josh8.com/blog/pers
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by sovietswag 1y ago
That quote about conjecture reminds me of a big point from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The author suggests that 'science' / 'the scientific method' don't actually account for the process by which
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by sovietswag 1y ago
Hm, the author explicitly pointed out the same: > What confuses me is that other people can form images in their minds. Are all those with character amnesia also aphantasic? That can't be, given that aphantasics amount to less than
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by sovietswag 1y ago
Lollll ‘dd’ with autocorrect will be a hoot
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by sovietswag 1y ago
You should take a listen to Tomita as well then! There is so much beautiful music in the world
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by sovietswag 1y ago
I was expecting something snobby but this was actually a very interesting view into the mind of a self-actualized person. I guess this is what happens if you keep working hard and don't burn out! Thanks for posting this
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by sovietswag 1y ago
Holy crap this was my operating systems professor!!! I was not expecting to see this here... big smile on my face. He was a great teacher :).
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by sovietswag 1y ago
Archive.org has a PHP Software Engineer position they posted recently, may come in handy once you have a more stable setup with your computer https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/..
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by sovietswag 2y ago
Communicating Sequential Processes (Hoare), The Next 700 Programming Languages (Landin), As We May Think (Bush), Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style (Backus) And this seems to be a cool course: https://canvas.
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by sovietswag 2y ago
You’re on the right path my friend, hang on to the feeling that drove you to write this. Not everyone has it, and you may even find yourself having woken up with it missing one day. So use it while you have it
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by sovietswag 2y ago
YES I FOUND IT, article on the same topic, not in the context of computers: https://thehealthygp.com/2021/04/28/why-i-stopped-using-the-... Why I stopped using the word “just” and why the #justaGP narrative h
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by sovietswag 2y ago
Random tip... I noticed the volume sliders only take effect when you stop dragging the knob. You can use the 'oninput' event for the slider to set its value as the user moves it around. Something like: volume_slider.oninput = func
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by sovietswag 2y ago
I sometimes wonder if statistics are like a pane of glass that allow the light of god (the true nature of things) to pass through, while logic/rationalism is the hubris of man playing god. I.e. statistics allow us to access/use th
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by sovietswag 2y ago
This is an interesting avenue to add to my search of “where the experts hang out”. I tried to reflect on it here: https://josh8.com/blog/mailing_lists.html (As you can infer from the title, I decided that ‘mailing lis
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by sovietswag 2y ago
You can use the US embargo on Cuba as a case study -- see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJETjgJM-Q4 . The conclusion is roughly that the sanctions did not work, they only strengthened Cuba's relationship w
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by sovietswag 2y ago
It turns out that there is a lot of discourse out there about "semantic newlines", under a few different names. So far the names I've seen are: - One Sentence Per Line (OSPL) - Semantic Line Breaks (SemBr) - Semantic Linefeed
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by sovietswag 3y ago
This sounds like texinfo (invoke via the ‘info’ command). Fun fact ironically a lot of the original groff documentation is written in texinfo, see: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2005-10/msg0010
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We Need a Deeper Network (Brown CSCI 1470/2470 end-of-semester song) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by sovietswag 3y ago|0 comments
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by sovietswag 3y ago
(Not the person you asked) but it helps to realize that vim in "insert" mode is just like any other text editor you know, you can use your arrow keys and the delete button to edit your document. You will get annoyed pretty quickly
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by sovietswag 3y ago
Finally, an opportunity to share a series from one of my favorite lecturers :). This is a set of lectures on the Critique from Robert Paul Wolff: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC5GAeBZerO-RuKBI1IqHZz... He jokes that

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